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GOBLIN HOVEL’s Gobischkevrot Now Streaming

The clan of the moon fist has arrived! The new album from the genre-defying collective known as GOBLIN HOVEL is now available on CD and digital formats. Stream and purchase Gobischkevrot The album is a synthesis of avant-garde metal and comedic audio drama. Gobischkevrot recounts the story of a beleaguered clan of goblins seeking mystical power in a desperate struggle for survival in a human-dominated world. A concept album in the truest sense, Gobischkevrot blends intense folk-inspired metal with spoken-word narration from the Goblin RaidBoss known as Skraptif. With over 20 releases under their belt, GOBLIN HOVEL fully embraces their […]

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NECRONOMICON EX MORTIS – The Mother Of Death [EP]

Churning out two EPs last year and as many this year, adding up to the playing time of pretty much a single album, Chicagoans NECRONOMICON EX MORTIS return with The Mother Of Death. ‘Trick Or Treat’ leads, a beefed up RUMPLESTILSKIN GRINDER blended with ACID WITCH vocals, obsession with ‘70s/’80s horror flicks in full force. While the drums could stand a bit more heft in the mix, and the guitars tend to get buried in the bass-heavy mix, ‘Infestation’ and the title track are punchy and chock fulla riffs. The ambient ‘Itchy Tasty’ is surprisingly worthwhile, and ‘Salem’s Lot’ conjures […]

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MANTAR To Release Post Apocalyptic Depression Full-Length February 14th, 2025 Via Metal Blade Records; New Video/Single Now Playing

MANTAR will release a brand new full-length, Post Apocalyptic Depression, on February 14th, 2025 via Metal Blade Records. 2022’s Pain Is Forever And This Is The End saw the German duo bring a sonic richness to their madly heavy blackened death-punk grooves, assisting the record to its position at #2 on Germany’s Official Top 10 album chart. The record added smoother, calmer, more harmonic textures to MANTAR’s expanding palette, but on 2024’s Post Apocalyptic Depression, the band smashes the palette and punches a hole in the canvas. “We wanted to do everything different from the last album,” affirms guitarist/vocalist Hanno […]

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Album Review: Goatlord Corp. – Temple Of Serpent Whores

GOATLORD CORP. arrives, kicking open the rust-encrusted gate to Temple Of Serpent Whores with ‘Slave Disciplin’, a confidently striding riff soon devolving into the equivalent of a sentient woodchipper on crack, ferocious. Vokillist Saint Vincent dredges up a mighty Mille Petrozza from KREATOR’s early years, all snarl, sneer and raspy execution. The title track only fans the flames here, the chorus of ‘Temple Of Serpent Whores’ demands horns raised, heads banged, blood in the pit in a way that those black metal bands with convoys of tour buses and Nuclear Blast touring budgets rarely succeed. Deceptively, the song shifts and […]

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GODZILLIONAIRE: new album and track announced on Ripple Music

Kansas-based dark and soulful heavy rockers GODZILLIONAIRE have signed to Ripple Music for the release of their sophomore full-length, Diminishing Returns, this January 17th, and present its groovy first single ‘3rd Street Shuffle’. Check out new single ‘3rd Street Shuffle’ via Outlaws of the Sun Fronted by legendary singer, poet, and artist Mark Hennessy from grunge band Paw, GODZILLIONAIRE is known for creating focused music equal in ferocity and lovelorn sensitivity and bringing raging, emotionally intense live performances. Hennessy is joined by Ben White (guitar), Michael Dye (bass), and Cody Romaine (drums) in creating music with focus and intention, rooted […]

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Album Review: Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja

It doesn’t get much weirder than ORANSSI PAZUZU. The eccentric Finns left their black metal roots in the dust long ago and have boldly steered full speed ahead into the land of “WTF”. Their 2020 album, Mestarin Kynsi, didn’t do a heck of a lot for me, as they seemed to reject any form of memorability in their quest for strangeness. 2024 brings us Muuntautuja…how does this one fare? This record is more batshit than anything they’ve done so far. Sheer noise has never played such an important role as it does here. In the press, the vocalist/guitarist Jun-His describes […]

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KVELDSTIMER Release Physical Edition of Scripture Of The Woods

The debut album from old-school black metal duo KVELDSTIMER is now available on CD via Alte Seelen. Scripture Of The Woods delivers a sound that harkens back to the early ’90s Norwegian scene. Originally released as a limited-edition cassette earlier this year, Alte Seelen is now offering these seven black metal rituals on CD. Order and stream the album now at Alte Seelen’s Bandcamp alteseelen.bandcamp.com Scripture Of The Woods Track List: 1) Emerging Glare 2) Folk Of The Blossoming Sky 3) Sommar 4) The Field’s Arrival 5) Washed Away Among The Stones 6) Fiendish Lore 7) Moon’s Melody Of Death […]

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Album Review: Ensiferum – Winter Storm

That ENSIFERUM was on a downward slide between 2009 classic From Afar and ‘20s Thalassic still kind of hurts, given how reliable the band was for its first four albums. I’ve kept up peripherally with them since, always at least given each new release a spin, but have come away feeling disappointed, and never went back to see if there was anything I might’ve missed, because there was so much more to hear and give time to, even within the folk metal sub-subgenre. Intro ‘Aurora’ sounds like the loading screen for the flash game Crush The Castle, and ‘Winter Storm […]

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WITCHPIT: new video ‘Through Eyes Of Apathy’ available, Forever Spoken out on Heavy Psych Sounds

South Carolina-based sludge metal warriors WITCHPIT unleash their bone-crushing new single and video ‘Through Eyes Of Apathy’, via No Clean Singing. Their new album, Forever Spoken, is out now on Heavy Psych Sounds. “Denny Stone has a hell of an intensely impassioned voice, which ranges between jagged bay-at-the-moon wails and the screams of someone being strangled with barbed wire but still trying to get at his executioner’s throat.” – No Clean Singing Watch the video for ‘Through Eyes Of Apathy’ About the song, the band says: “‘Through Eyes of Apathy’ explores the theme of making a bold decision to abandon […]

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Noroth / Grave Infestation – Split

When Washington State deathmongers NOROTH and GRAVE INFESTATION of British Columbia get together, there’s gonna be mayhem. NOROTH begins with ‘Trepanation Ritual’, positively spewing bile and fueled with an d-beat urgency, The Cult Is Alive DARKTHRONE, but more meaty, more burled, more gnarly and destructive; memorable in the way getting smacked in the cranium with a ball peen hammer is memorable. Instantly overpowering, GRAVE INFESTATION wields riff and convulsing rhythm with an uncompromising dexterity within the ‘Necroslaughterhouse’, sheep-bleating (bleeding?) leads and time changes aplenty, daring us to latch onto a time signature for more than 10 seconds, knowing we’ll fail […]

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